Turret House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Turret House

WRENN ID
turning-shingle-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Turret House, Hunstanton Road, Heacham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE31 7HH
OS grid reference
TF 680 378
Coordinates
52.91216, 0.49795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Turret House is a house built around 1830 with a late 19th-century addition. The original part of the house is made of red brick and has a roof covered with black glazed pantiles. The later addition features rubble carstone, flint, and brick with cut stone dressings. The main house has three ground-floor and two first-floor sash windows with glazing bars. There is an off-center door with a rectangular fan light and a flat-roofed porch supported by two columns with fluted neckings and plain shafts. The house has one gable at the south end and one axial stack.

The late 19th-century addition is designed in a Tudoresque Gothic style, incorporating some medieval elements but largely featuring 19th-century cut stone details. At the south side, there is a two-storey returned bay that connects with the main house, made of rubble carstone with brick dressings. It has an octagonal brick angle pier with an applied stone octagonal fragment that includes tracery and finials. There is a first-floor string course, an attic parapet, and a flat roof.

In the center of the addition is a two-storey tower with a ground-floor rectangular stone window and brick angle piers. The first floor features a largely stone-dressed rectangular tower with four traceried angle turrets topped with finials and two ogee-headed Gothic windows. To the north, there is a single-storey section with a large three-light Tudor terracotta casement. There is also a two-storey semi-octagonal tower with a ground floor that has a renewed, possibly 15th-century, battlemented two-light casement to the south and a 13th-century tomb lid to the north. The first floor has two two-light casements and battlements, with a decorative string course of flint and terracotta connecting the three bays.

Local climate

Turret House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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